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PJ Harvey, the singer-songwriter of the acclaimed ‘Let England Shake’, has announced her intention to ‘regularly release’ artwork and writings she has been working on for twenty years.

The inpiration came after a positive experience as a guest designer for Francis Ford Coppola’s magazine Zoetrope: All-Story, in 2010. CMy beginnings were as a visual artist, not a musician,” Harvey said. “I was going to do a degree in sculpture … but then the path towards music opened up for me. I had an opportunity to make a record and it took me away from ever doing that.”

Visual art has remained part of her life, though. “I take my work with me”, Harvey said. “As I write every day, I draw and paint every day and it’s just part of my life. In fact, songwriting is, for me, a very visual process as well.”

Visíveis Virtudes can hardly wait for what she calls “extraneous works, drawings and writings that aren’t songs, but just other things that I do” to be released.